I wonder if Cousins getting that same ankle taped up after he rolled it on Ryan Hollins' foot in the second quarter just saved him from a series injury.
[Game] Kings @ Grizzlies - 1/30/16 - 5 PT, 8 ET
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I wonder if Cousins getting that same ankle taped up after he rolled it on Ryan Hollins' foot in the second quarter just saved him from a series injury.
Kings_on_the_RiSE
G-League
Thank you God, for blessing our big man with strong bones! Big Cuz is my hero!
Blob
Starter
Good call that's exactly what it was.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
Just can't shake the defensive effort more than anything....92 points through three quarters to Memphis who nearly averages that for a game?
Kings_on_the_RiSE
G-League
I didn't want to believe it. That replay made me cringe.
I feel this way too, but it doesn't matter what we think. Only way this changes is if Vlade decides he's seen enough.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
I think he rides this season out with Karl but after that, cans him for good.
Boogie_Fever
G-League
It's not effort I can tell you that. The Kings get killed on the same spots of the floor every game. What does that tell you?
Boogie_Fever
G-League
It ain't the effort sorry to tell you. This team gets killed on the same spots on the floor every night. They win games due to teams not being able to make the open shots they are given every night by this defensive scheme. Its laughable and borderline criminal the miususe of this roster. Best big man in the game but hey, lets push it up and down the court. Hey we have excellent paint protectors, lets sag off of shooters to help the paint.
I just don't see this group ever figuring it out on defense.
Vlade needs to make a change. Please find some one who actually gives a flying **** about the other side of the ball. I feel like I'm taking carzy pills watching these ***holes give up 3 after 3 out there every damn night.
Vlade needs to make a change. Please find some one who actually gives a flying **** about the other side of the ball. I feel like I'm taking carzy pills watching these ***holes give up 3 after 3 out there every damn night.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
It's not effort? Isn't defense in general about effort from the beginning and then setting a scheme in place from there? It's not one or the other, it's both. That we can agree on.
Boogie_Fever
G-League
Effort can only make up for so much. If you are placed on the wrong spots on the floor no effort in this world can help you close out on a shooter fast enough when you are told to sag so far in the paint.
Peter_Gibbons
Starter
If we weren't so desperate, Boogie should be sitting out 2-3 games to rest.
Boogie_Fever
G-League
It took some Herculean efforts by Cousins for that 5 game winning streak to happen. The style of play Karl wants does not match this roster.
Kings_on_the_RiSE
G-League
Karl is simply past his prime. I hope I'm wrong for the sake of this team. This off-season will be very interesting, to say the least.
Blob
Starter
Is Rudy a rookie or a 9 year vet? Because time and score (three points behind with 35 seconds to play) is enough to know you should not foul even if you cannot hear what the players and coach are yelling at you. It is disconcerting to think our second/third best player is so mentally challenged in a situation like that.
Boogie choked when we closed the lead to two with two forced shots on consecutive possessions: a lay-up attempt at a bad angle (force!) followed by a quick three point shot with 20 seconds on the shot clock on next possession (force!). It is poor judgement when we had Grizzlies on the ropes. Boogie tried to resort to hero ball and I have seen enough of it to last his career.
And Rondo was lazy with his passes and the Grizzlies don't allow lazy passes. It was only dominating them on the boards 51-32 and 18 offensive rebounds that allowed it to be close.
Boogie choked when we closed the lead to two with two forced shots on consecutive possessions: a lay-up attempt at a bad angle (force!) followed by a quick three point shot with 20 seconds on the shot clock on next possession (force!). It is poor judgement when we had Grizzlies on the ropes. Boogie tried to resort to hero ball and I have seen enough of it to last his career.
And Rondo was lazy with his passes and the Grizzlies don't allow lazy passes. It was only dominating them on the boards 51-32 and 18 offensive rebounds that allowed it to be close.
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KingMilz
Guest
Say what you want about Marc Gasol but the dude is a beast he might not put up stats like Drummond/Cuz/Howard but his IQ is higher than all 3 combined and when it comes to helping your team win he is probably the best out all of them, should have been a All Star over the sub 500. guys who made it in.
Another crap performance by the team only got back into once Memphis thought the game was over giving us more false hope in a season filled with it.
If the Kings do intend to build around Cousins the next two best players have to better all round players than Rondo and Rudy.
Another crap performance by the team only got back into once Memphis thought the game was over giving us more false hope in a season filled with it.
If the Kings do intend to build around Cousins the next two best players have to better all round players than Rondo and Rudy.
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Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Don't get confused just because we make a guy look like a hero. Gasol ain't all that anymore.
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KingMilz
Guest
We didn't even make him look good that was Jeff Green I'm just speaking in general his combination of size/IQ is super impressive.
ParniValjak
All-Star
So that 5 game winning streak we wnt on has pretty much been undone! Back to the pack and relying on others to drop games while we keep dropping ours.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
We are very intimidating so long As Cuz is pouring in 35-12 every night.
Otherwise, well in the 4th was the first time in about 2 weeks that Gay, Collison and Casspi actually gave us games, so..maybe. More likely though this team really is bizarrely erratic and basically hasn't shown sustainable growth. A particularly erratic .500 team, frustratingly so because the problem appears to be from the neck up. Coming out this way game after game...such a good thing I am not in that locker room, I'd be throwing around magic words in combinations and getting in fights.
We are very intimidating so long As Cuz is pouring in 35-12 every night.
Otherwise, well in the 4th was the first time in about 2 weeks that Gay, Collison and Casspi actually gave us games, so..maybe. More likely though this team really is bizarrely erratic and basically hasn't shown sustainable growth. A particularly erratic .500 team, frustratingly so because the problem appears to be from the neck up. Coming out this way game after game...such a good thing I am not in that locker room, I'd be throwing around magic words in combinations and getting in fights.
I think they're erratic because they're getting little to no consistent direction from their head coach. I'm beginning to understand why DeMarcus went berserk in the locker room.
I guess this could be our biggest take-away... progression in Ben. He played good D tonight.
Going back and looking, his man only scored 1 FG on him in the entire game. It was a VC 3pter.
Very impressive from that standpoint.
He did a really decent job in helping down low. He never sunk in deep and only came over once he saw the big in their scoring motion.
I think he needs to do a better job stopping penetration though. He also fouled twice which I believe led to FTs.
KingsFanGER
Starter
So what changed in the 4th? Our defensive strategy?
biltalent
Starter
Make no mistake, the 4th quarter come back was more on them failing and bailing us out than on something we could be proud of. They still scored 29 points. This was a clear blow out game.
KingsFanGER
Starter
I won't go through this game again, so I won't be able to disprove your point.
I personally felt, that the team had a different kind of energy in the 4th.
But ultimately it doesn't really matter, if the defensive struggles are a coaching thing or a lack of effort. The fact remains, that teams get warmup jumpers everytime they face the Kings. The Grizzlies are not a great shooting team, but even Lee, Carter and Green will knock down jumpshot after jumpshot, if you leave them on an island.
I just can't believe, that any coach would want this kind of defense by design. Players are guarding empty space, are ballwatching, blow assignments, fall asleep and nobody really goes hard on every play.
You need a very grim sense of humor, when watching us defend.
DC guarding Green fullcourt, only to have Acy step right out of Greens way to allow the easy layup?? Cmon now.
3 Kings guarding 2 Grizzlies on one side of the floor, while Green literally could have ordered a burger and a beer before launching his 3 from the opposite wing? By design?
Cuz, Willie AND Acy all reacting to Chalmers driving to the hoop, only to leave Green (Acy's assignment on the wing) open for another 3? Karl's fault?
Rudy caught ballwatching and not even trying to fight over a soft brush screen from Gasol, only to cause a 2vs1 situation for Ben, who needs to pick his poison leaving Green or Lee wide open for a 3? Not an effort thing?
And this are only the biggest defensive mistakes I as a fan noticed during this game.
I hate watching this kind of crap.
I just want a team, that competes on the defensive end.
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